"I throw myself down in my chamber, and I call and invite God and his angels thither."
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"That which attempts to elevate the ugly to the level of beauty becomes neither; but an obscenity."
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"Whilst my physicians by their love are grown Cosmographers, and I their map, who lie Flat on this bed."
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"The heavens rejoice in motion, why should I Abjure my so much loved variety."
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"Dull sublunary lovers' love (Whose soul is sense) cannot admit Absence, because it doth remove Those things which elemented it."
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"And dare love that, and say so too, And forget the He and She."
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"Between these two, the denying of sins, which we have done, and the bragging of sins, which we have not done, what a space, what a compass is there, for millions of millions of sins!"
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"My face in thine eye, thine in mine appears, And true plain hearts do in the faces rest; Where can we find two better hemispheres, Without sharp north, without declining west? Whatever dies, was not mix'd equally; If our two loves be one, or, thou and I Love so alike, that none do slacken, none can die."
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"And when a whirl-winde hath blowne the dust of the Churchyard into the Church, and man sweeps out the dust of the Church into the Church-yard, who will undertake to sift those dusts again, and to pronounce, This is the Patrician, this is the noble flower, and this the yeomanly, this the Plebian bran."
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"Let man's soul be a sphere, and then, in this, The intelligence that moves, devotion is."
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"Oft from new truths, and new phrase, new doubts grow, As strange attire aliens the men we know."
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"When God's hand is bent to strike, it is a fearful thing to fall into the hands of the living God ; but to fall out of the hands of the living God is a horror beyond our expression, beyond our imagination."
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"I did best when I had least truth for my subjects."
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"Commemoration of Richard Meux Benson, Founder of the Society of St John the Evangelist, 1915 Our critical day is not the very day of our death, but the whole course of our life; I thank him, that prays for me when my bell tolls; but I thank him much more, that catechizes me, or preaches to me, or instructs me how to live."
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"That thou remember them, some claim as debt; I think it mercy, if thou wilt forget."
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"Other men's crosses are not my crosses."
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"Oh do not die, for I shall hate All women so, when thou art gone."
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"Never start with tomorrow to reach eternity. Eternity is not being reached by small steps."
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"There is in every miracle a silent chiding of the world, and a tacit reprehension of them who require, or who need miracles."
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"The world is a great volume, and man the index of that book; even in the body of man, you may turn to the whole world."
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